Free-Trade Advocate to Be Tapped
For Council of Economic Advisers

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton is expected to appoint Robert Lawrence, a staunch advocate of free trade, to his three-member Council of Economic Advisers.

If approved by the Senate, Mr. Lawrence, an economist at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, would succeed international-economics expert Jeffrey Frankel. Mr. Frankel will leave the administration next month to join the Brookings Institution think tank and the Kennedy...